Stats from Google Play for “Firefox for Android”

Before we begin with the data, I need to clarify something readers may not be aware of at first glance, “What is an Install”

Install in this context is any currently active device which has Firefox installed on it. It does not actually indicate frequent use.

Installs by OS – Release (org.mozilla.firefox)

Yes, you see that right, this is 81.4% of our GA users on some version of Android 4.0+.

Installs by OS – Beta (org.mozilla.firefox_beta)

Our beta audience is pretty similar with 83.59% on an Android 4.x or higher.

Installs by Chipset

Selecting by Chipset is a bit harder, since to do so we have to take a factor of how Releng does our Play Store releases (different buildID’s to factor to different chipsets). I am doing this by a feature of the play store, namely “Export as CSV” which gives buildID info

So with that in mind, here is the data:

Arm V7

Arm V6

x86

Firefox Beta

96.19%

0.90%

2.91%

Firefox GA

98.61%

1.39%

N/A

The caveats to note is that I only gathered data from today’s Google Play installs, and I aggregated all installs over all versions, even ones that are multiple years old. We also do not have x86 released officially yet, so we only have beta users using that version.

Coming in Part 2:

Where does Mozilla Invest build and test resources for Android?

How does this compare to Mozilla’s Testing Infrastructure?

¹ – This post as-is is indeed intended to be data without analysis/commentary. I don’t feel I’m greatly suited for the latter compared to other people possibly reading. In Part 2 I intend to show some correlaries-as-data to what we are doing inside Release Engineering as it compares to our users at large. I’m currently hoping to also write it devoid of any assertions/commentary.– The underlying reasoning here is to help spur thoughts and commentary in others in order to further our mission using data, while at the same time without inserting my own opinions or biases into what I am presenting with this 2-part series. I do not yet know if I will do a commentary piece referencing these posts or not, and I may do so, I just don’t yet plan to.